Dyninst 10.x

Version 10.1.0

^{Released on May 16, 2019}
Improvements from 10.0.0

• Full support of dynamic instrumentation on ARMv8
• Significant improvement of stack walking on ARMv8
• Adding instruction decoding support for AMD instruction extensions, such as XOP and FMA4
• Enhancement of the build system for checking and installing dependencies (see wiki for important details)
• Updated the Spack recipe for building Dyninst with appropriate Boost versions

Bug Fixes

• More stable parallel binary code analysis
  • Identifying and fixing a couple of race conditions
  • Enforcing unique analysis order to generate deterministic results
• Improving code generation for instrumentation on Power to conform to ABI v2
• Improving binary rewriting on x86 and Power for
  • Position independent executables (PIEs)
  • Statically linked binaries
• Resolving deadlocks in ProccontrolAPI
• Improving code generation for BPatch_whileExpr on x86, Power, and ARMv8.
• Fixing SIGILLs problems on ARMv8 caused by icache-dcache incoherence
• Fixing supports of parsing debug information stored in separate files
• Fixing incomplete libdw port for parsing DWARF expressions

Version 10.0.0

^{Released on November 9, 2018}
Improvements from 9.3.2

• Parallel binary code analysis (ParseAPI)
  • Parallel code parsing, significantly improving the speed of the analysis of large binaries
  • Parallel query to ParseAPI
  • Improve multiple aspects of parsing, including non-returning functions, tail call identification, jump table analysis
• First official release of dyninstAPI for ARMv8, with partial support of dynamic instrumentation
• Improving support for Power 8 & 9 instrumentation and new vector instruction decoding
• SymtabAPI now provides information about inlined functions. See the manual for details.
• Limited CUDA support: read-only queries of SymtabAPI
• Updated Spack receipt for installing Dyninst

Software Dependency Changes

• Adds dependency on libdw and removes dependency on libdwarf
• Adds dependency on Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB)
• Adds optional dependency on OpenMP for parallel code analysis

Bug Fixes

• x86/64 decoding Issues, including adding support for vector instructions and wrong operand sizes
• Fix compilation issues on Arch Linux
• Cross-architecture binary analysis: try/catch blocks
• Improve DWARF parsing: fix dwarf symbol frame and elf section parsing
• Improve CMake build systems: automatically downloading correct versions of Boost, TBB, and elfutils
• Fix inferior RPC on ARMv8
• Updated CMake build system for automatically downloading Dyninst dependencies and support parallel compilation